A few months ago, I published a post about the Pima Indians (Akimel O'odham) of Arizona. The Pima are one of the most heart-wrenching ...
Water for the Pima
A few months ago, I published a post about the Pima Indians (Akimel O'odham) of Arizona. The Pima are one of the most heart-wrenching ...
Conflict of Interest
The U.S. National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) is a government organization that educates physicians and the general public about t...
Eating Down the Food Chain
Saharan Hunter-Gatherers Unearthed
The media recently covered an archaeological discovery in Niger that caught my attention. In the middle of the Sahara desert, researchers ...
Fit at 70
In my professional life, I study neurodegenerative disease, the mechanisms of aging, and what the two have in common. I was reading through...
Cardiovascular Risk Factors on Kitava, Part IV: Leptin
Leptin is a hormone that is a central player in the process of weight gain and chronic disease. Its existence had been predicted for decad...
Cardiovascular Risk Factors on Kitava, Part III: Insulin
The Kitava study continues to get more and more interesting in later publications. Dr. Lindeberg and his colleagues continued exploring dis...
Cardiovascular Risk Factors on Kitava, Part II: Blood Lipids
The findings in the previous post are all pretty much expected in a population that doesn't get heart disease. However, things started ...
Cardiovascular Risk Factors on Kitava, Part I: Weight and Blood Pressure
The Kitavans are an isolated population free of cardiovascular disease and stroke, despite the fact that more than three quarters of them sm...
The Kitavans: Wisdom from the Pacific Islands
There are very few cultures left on this planet that have not been affected by modern food habits. There are even fewer that have been stud...
Letter to the Editor
I wrote a letter to the New York Times about their recent article "The Overflowing American Dinnerplate", which I reviewed here . ...
Rats on Junk Food
If diet composition causes hyperphagia, we should be able to see it in animals. I just came across a great study from the lab of Dr. Neil ...
Hyperphagia
One of the things I didn't mention in the last post is that Americans are eating more calories than ever before. According to Centers f...
Media Misinterpretations
The New York Times just published an article called " The Overflowing American Dinner Plate ", in which they describe changes in t...
Life Expectancy and Growth of Paleolithic vs. Neolithic Humans
If paleolithic people were healthier than us due to their hunter-gatherer lifestyle, why did they have a shorter life expectancy than we do ...
Hunting
Composition of the Hunter-Gatherer Diet
I bumped into a fascinating paper today by Dr. Loren Cordain titled "Plant-Animal Subsistence Ratios and Macronutrient Estimations in ...
